The National Science Foundation (NSF) has reaffirmed its commitment to data archiving and sharing in the Arctic by investing $6 million to continue funding of the Arctic Data Center for another five years.
This is the finding of a new study that could help researchers determine the best spots to search for microbes that could be unique to the region, having been isolated and evolving alone for millions of years.
UCI and NASA JPL researchers used boats, aircraft and other methods to quantify for the first time the effects of warm, salty ocean water reaching the undersides of glaciers in Greenland’s steep-sided fjords.
The Southern Ocean, which surrounds the Antarctic continent, south of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, is a wild region that is difficult to explore.
